Be a number one yourself. And not a number two somebody else.

I don't need time. What I need is a deadline!

Hurry, get on board, it's comin', listen to those rails a-thrumming all aboard. Get on the "A" train, soon you will be on Sugar Hill in Harlem.

Sing sweet, but put a little dirt in it.

I don't need time, I need a deadline.

Of the One O'Clock Lab Band after hearing their performance, and sitting in with them at the White House: "I wish it were mine".

There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.